Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-27

One Hundred and Fifty Persons
on h stage when the Fire Broke
out
TsFEcLAL 10 TEE sxxzISKLI
PAx1s. Nay 25-The Opera Comi9ue
took Ire this evening. The whole bald
ing Is nov wrapped in flames. Several
uere injured. Fourteen persons, who
Jumped from tbs windows, are dead, and
forsy-tAres were Injured. Probably many
were crushed to death il TIE galleries. A,
prsssn; this Is uncertain.
LATxE-The Ere broke out during the
frs; &C; Of The opera Of Mignon. One Of
The wings csugh. FIRE from 5 gas JET, and
tie euiire stage Vas Immediately envsl-
oped il flames, and the IRE soon spread 70
The zhols house. Madame Mergvillier,
and NsdxDe Tasgnin and Bernard we're
on the stage when tie IRE broke out. All
the sectors RAD ont OF the stage in their
Costumes. The audience go. cut easily,
but the gas was turned Of before all left
the building, and it Is feared that some
we're left in the upper tiers. The roof
soon fell in. sending showers Of sparks a.
far a. the Place de Labourss. With the
exception Of Madame SELLER, vho per
ishej. all the sectors escaped, though q
number were seriously injured. Five
bodies. terribly burned, we're conveyed TO
the National Library. Among them the
body Of 6 woman clssping q little baby in
her arms. The money receipts were
saved and deposited IN Goulbis' Office.
The 6remen showed tie greatest courage.
n. u. Goblet Thibesln vas on the spot
4 z11r aE-zr .hc So -~ ~ r1-,rzS
throughout With the FIRE officials. The
Military Club rendered great assistance il
the work OF resisting the erowding o. The
people towards the building. Nineteen
persons are known 20 be dead. Many
there supposed the artificial FIRE apparatus,
which had been placed in position in
readiness for the burning OF the palace in
the second set. rolled down from its place,
near the roof. sni exploded below.
Women half clad, carrying their costumes,
fed from the stage screaming. The supers
and members OF the chorus we're :erri-
fed, and some Of the latter fed with
nothing on but tights. The flames spread
with such rapidly that in fifteen min
utes the stage was 3 vssi furnace. Sew
erai actors escaped By climbing to the
, roof on the side OF the Rae Aerirante,
where they were rescued By fire escapes
N . = AuF4IIC4 t4E AG4tAlS W Ie
main seated until the exits were opened.
which they did. II they had made 8
rush for The doors the less Of life
would have been terrible. The po-
lice outside were unable TO restrain
the crowd, who besieged the build
ing inquiriug for friends, until 9
military Gordon was formed. One man,
who wanted 10 rescue his brother and els.
ter, rsyed. tore his hair, and mensced with
s stick the people who stopped him from
rushing into the blazing building. The
scene outside wss one of the wildes, excite
ment. The falling embers struck horses
in surrounding streets, causing them 10
plunge and rear. Tie flames shot out OF
every window, forcing lhe crowd into
narrow streets, where the crush was ter
: rife. Figursnte ssYs there were $50 per
sons on the stage when she FIRE broke out.
She heard glass breaking. but told the
Others not 10 mind it. But while she was
speaking q column of hame broke through
the wings with q roar, and all rushed pell
nell from the stage. Many policemen
were injured. It is still unknown how
: many persons were unable 10 escape from
the doomed building. Only q fortnight
ago NJ. Steinsksrs called attention in the
Chamber OF Deputies TO she dangerous
condition Of the Opera Comique. the Oldest
thester in Paris. Figaro also called at
tention to the same thing after the recent
l2-hour benefit performance, when the
audience was delayed q few minutes By
l dense smoke snd insufficient light.
Director Soleil. with his wife and two
children. escaped without injury. The
killed included four fremen. The iron
curtain was lowered in front Of the stage.
This prevented the fire from spreading
4 i'm m adj talv 40 Tho anlscrao arI alfa-sn.
/ them time 10 escape. The men who car
raied away the money chest. report that
when they left the auditorium was quite
empty. The IRE brigade distinguished
themselves, but many had narrow escapes
Most OF the casualties so far reported are
due TO nervousness. Many persons who
we're unable to trust themselves to walk the
narrow edge of the cornice around the
building, jumped of in terror. Oce
woman coolly walked around the cornice
while the flames were bursting above her
until she reached the FIRE escape. The
victims were almost all singers. The
streets in the vicinity OF the sheaser were
crowded until sn early hour this morning.
The doctors attended many persons Who
had been bruised.
PARIS, May 26-The bodies OF the bal
let dancers who lost their lives by the
tN SENA9 S0AAA44C lass <
are lying in heaps in the ruins Of the the
ster. The fireman assert that many
bodies are lying in the upper galleries.
The number of persons killed greatly ex-
ceeds the previous estimates. An excited
crowd surrounds the ruins, which are
guarded by . military Gordon.
Twenty bodies in 9 terribly mutilsted
condition have been recovered from the
ruins. The remains are principally those
OF ballet girls. choristers, aud machinisis.
4P. M.-Twenty more bodies were re-
covered this afternoon from the ruins Of
the Theater Comique. The search CON-
tinues.
The remains OF three men and two
women we're found in the stage box, where
the victims had taken refuge from the
flames.
II is ascertained that many bodies lie
buried in the upper galleries, where escape
was exceedingly difficult. The Govern
ment proposes 10 close several Paris the
aters because OF their deficiency in sxits.